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I think there is a lot of marketing strategy behind it. They aren't exactly enemies, but the fiercest competitors out there in the history of soccer. There has never been a time when two guys dominated the soccer world like those two did.

What do you think is the best move for the Saudi soccer league? It is to get both of them on board, but in different clubs and then say something along the lines "may the rivalry continue", that is the slogan that people want to read and everyone will be looking forward to those both teams playing against each other.

As you said, it is to preserve the hype of Messi vs. Ronaldo for as long as possible and to actually transition it from Europe into the Arabic world.

I wonder why Messi and Ronaldo are like an enemies with each other because there's no team want to sign Ronaldo and Messi, it's always one of them. Al Hilal is the big enemy for Al Nassr, so if Messi will join Al Hilal, it's just like Real Madrid vs Barcelona in Spanish league.

Maybe there's a hidden or unwritten contract where a team can't sign Ronaldo and Messi at the same time, to protect the hype of Messi vs Ronaldo and debating which one is the real GOAT lol.

Real Madrid would be one of the worst nightmares for the Blues to face, and there is high chance of Los Blancos winning. One of the favorite managers to succeed Graham Potter where he leaves off is Julian Nagelsmann. He should be hired by Todd Boehly because he has expertise leading elite clubs, and Chelsea won't be an exception. I just hope Julian Nagelsmann had good chemistry with the players. He gave the discussion bids the go-ahead and they will soon enter key stages, I'm waiting for the final bid and Fabrizio Romano will inform us once once the agreement is agreed between the two parties.

Impressive how the Saudi's are doing the right thing to bring full traffic once again to them league, first it was Cristiano Ronaldo now it's plans for Lionel Messi, imagine what happens when a game between them teams faces themselves.
They're gradually engaging in almost every sports and if you check they're buying clubs too in the premier league, they really want to dominate the world of entertainment.

Personally for the deal, it's up to Lionel Messi to decide if he wants the return to Barcelona it move to the Saudi Arabian league entirely.

I’m of the opinion that Chelsea need to get a manager before their UCL game with Real Madrid. For now Nagelsmann and Enrique, both of whom are out of work, are two of the main contenders to succeed Graham Potter following his dismissal. But it does seem that the ongoing talks between Chelsea and Julian Nagelsmann are reportedly heading in a positive direction. Honestly I’ll be happy if Nagelsmann gets the job. He has handle a big team like Bayern Munich, so with the numbers of good players in Chelsea, I see him making waves.

Messi already agreed to cut his salary. It's quite clear that if messi was doing everything to make sure if he will able to go back again to the barcelona but i do believe if there will be some conflicts gonna happen once he will be returning to the barcelona again as some players dislike him so much.

Some players were even rejecting him to go back again to the barcelona. that's club decision whether barcelona wanna try to take him back again or not. Messi is not young anymore.
Al hilal has been offering him very big salary if he wanna go there. The problem is will messi agree with such an offer? I knew that if he wants back to the barcelona again. This speculation will not get an answer until we will be coming to the summer transfer season.
Some clubs have been reported interested with him too.

I believe that this is very unlikely, because how could a club that already had 1.3 billion euros in debt sign such a valued player?
Even if president Joan Laporta declared at the beginning of the year that "the debt is under control" and that "financial health is improving", I do not believe that Barcelona have the possibility of hiring Lionel Messi.
Also remembering that Barcelona is also facing difficulties with the registration rules of LaLiga, which recently reduced the total spending limit on salaries of the Catalan club to 648.4 million euros. To pay Messi's high salary, some maneuver would be necessary: releasing part of the current payroll or increasing revenue.
And I haven't even mentioned the investigation into the huge refereeing scandal, which could net Barcelona some more hefty fines.
Anyway... Messi will have to find another place to play.

Chelsea actually played well against Liverpool in my opinion. Because at this moment not losing is definitely a good result for Chelsea. And that also means Chelsea is currently going to stay in the 11th position. They are not probably going to get further down because they have a good point advantage. But it is also hard to see them going anywhere near the top six.

Nagelsmann could be a good option for Chelsea. But as long as I don't see the results, I am going to be doubtful because Bayern Munich also had a good squad. But the results have been lacking this season.

There are not any chance yet for Barcelona signing Lionel Messi although he has priority keep staying in Europe teams, how possibility having much money for paying Messi ask higher salary bigger than received from PSG? I don't sure 100% with Lionel Messi statement will priority keep staying in Europe team, after interesting offering from Al Hilal team with €400 million/year he will difficult reject this offering due not any one team in Europe want to pay higher bid from Al Hilal.

Left two months later before Messi's contract with PSG expiry and become interested speculation what the future team from Messi, keep in Europe or move to Saudi Pro League and not stopping debate with Messi and Ronaldo fans.

It will be good for messi to try to consider moving to the arabian league. It's very big payments. that will make him become rich player in the world. That will be so stupid if he keeps following his ego. he will not able to play in the barcelona forever. I don't even think even though messi got a new offer from barcelona and messi will able to stay longer than 1 or 2 year.

You can imagine how much money will be gotten by messi if he was moving to the al hilal. Please messi don't make stupid movement again.


Barcelona is not having a lot of choices. Some players of barcelonas refused him to go back again. Barcelona didn't have the good financial condition. I think that messi must start to think about the future of his career. He will be able to get so much money that will be very beneficial for his life in the long term rather than getting small payments in barcelona. Barcelona is still able to owe their salary too. Messi must not be stupid enough caused by offer from al hilal will never come twice. Barcelona is nothng compared with arabian clubs in terms of how rich the club is.

[/quote]There will be a competition between ronaldo and messi again. This is also making the tension even higher between al nassr vs al hilal. i hope that messi will consider leaving PSG and he goes to the arabian league.
Barcelona can also kick him anytime using his age as the main reason. that's pretty much the same as ronaldo.

I am curious to see how he reacts to that offer. I would very much respect him if he declines the offer and says that he wants to stay in Europe, but there is of course no chance that he will keep up the level of the salary he even has now. Barcelona would have to change too many things, perhaps sell too many of their assets and get rid of players and that is quite the request from him as a 35 years old guy.

I was asking myself how Ronaldo must feel when he reads that Messi could go to the Saudi Professional league and earn 400 million a season Since he wants to be the best in all categories, that salary of Messi would go down into history for a very long time.

2x the salary of ronaldo. messi really has to think long and hard because the salary offered is quite fantastic. I think if Barcelona is one step late in resolving the FFP case I think Lionel Messi will not return to Barcelona. but I'm more interested in him moving to the saudi arabia league because it would be more exciting to see lionel messi vs ronaldo back in a match in the saudi arabia league.

Several big European league teams continue to be associated with Messi, such as Manchester City because of Pep Guardiola as his coach when he was at Barcelona. if this reunion happens also the EPL will run even more exciting in every match that is played by manchester city because there is already lionel messi in the depth of their squad. Linoel Messi will beat other football stars in the upcoming transfer market.

The amount of the offer the Saudi club is offering to Lionel Messi is just staggering and I think it'll be tempting to Messi as well but I think Messi still wants to play in Europe for at least two more seasons before he can leave but considering the deal that's been placed on his table already he might want to change his mind about it.
Whatever might be the decision of Messi, I know that football faithfuls would want to see the greatest players of modern day football compete against each other once again before they call it a day on their illustrious careers.

They won't be to hurry because I think there is no hope for them in the champions league against Real Madrid while they have no coach and Potter is not working there they could keep him for a few days and let him try the match against Real Madrid also there is no hope for them in the premier league, so that's better for Chslea to spend some more time and choose a better coach.

BREAKING: Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal have sent out a bid of €400 million/year for the greatest player of all time, Lionel Messi.

Messi's priority right now is to stay in Europe. Barcelona are waiting on FFP issues before sending out a contract offer for Messi.




With Messi coming to the Arab League, this is very interesting, many are looking forward to them, Ronaldo vs Messi will compete again.

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I've taken a close look up at the player personally, I'm impressed by his attacking and at the same time his scoring and defensive skills as a defender. Dalots lost confidence or what, I think bhe needs a backup player for him and that shouldn't be  Wan Bissaka.
He'll be a decent buy for Manchester United as he'll add so much to the strength of Manchester United defensive and attacking shape.

This ain't the first time I've come across such news, and I don't think this is a speculated news either, I hope Manchester United makes the switch.

A bit surprised that if manchester united has been targeting frimpong. Frimpong's performance last season is very bad before xabi has become a new coach for leverkusen. The key was not on the leverkusen but on xabi alonso who has been transformed him to be a good player. I doubt if frimpong will have the same performance when he will be moving to manchester united. United can still try to search for a better player than him. He is not a bad player but he is not yet consistent. Manchester unite will be gambling if the club will try to buy him from leverkusen.
I don't even know how the club was monitoring the player. it seems like that if the club was just seeing the performance from this season.

I hope that MU re-consider his previous season too. Xabi is the main reason why there is a big change in him. He will not be able to perform the same if he was not coached by xabi alonso.
I think that's gonna be a rumor only and it will never come true.

Chelsea already has an interim head coach, Bruno Saltor Grau. I think he is professional and begins his job quite well by getting a draw against Liverpool today. If you take a look at the stats against Liverpool today, I think Chelsea improved a bit their performance. At least, they played more aggressively today and made more shot attempts against a big team like Liverpool.

However, for the next match against Real Madrid, it will be a more difficult match. If Bruno Saltor Grau can get a draw or win, I think he deserves to be the interim head coach until the season ends. I a bit agree with some people who said that Chelsea doesn't need to hurry to hire a new coach/manager.

Pochettino could be a good candidate because he managed PSG before and he won so many titles with them, so he knows how to win and what is required to build a good team. Sure, it's easy winning ligue 1 with PSG, that wasn't a tough job but at least he did it and that type of experience matters and I think it's important.

There isn't going to to be any team that doesn't want him, he will find himself a place for sure but he doesn't want to go to a terrible team, or a low level team, that would be bad after PSG and would make it harder for him to go to another big club. Imagine him managing PSG then some small town team, like sheriff that beat Real last year, and then come back and manage City, that's impossible. So if he goes from PSG to Chelsea or Spurs to City, that could make sense, that's what he must be aiming at.

Without knowing more about Manchester United's specific needs and broad transfer plan it's challenging to asses whether signing Jeremie Frimpong would be a wise move. He might be a desirable choice given his potential and relatively low cost